Belfast, Friday.
The Chairman of the Ulster Protestant League, Mr Joseph McConnell, Belfast, has received the following reply from Mrs Clarke, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, in response to a request of the League that the Dublin mayoral chain, presented to the city by King William III., which Mrs Clarke declines to wear, and a portrait of Queen Victoria, which she also objects to in the Mansion House, should be sent to the League: "A Chara, - The Lord Mayor has received your letters of the 25th and 28th ult. re Queen Victoria's picture and the mayoral chain, and she desires me to state that, as both these articles are the property of the Dublin Corporation, she has no control over their disposal. She would suggest you address your request to that body.
- Mise le meas, Mary O'Sullivan, Private Secretary."
The Irish Times, August 12th, 1939.
